Word: antone
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...late night air above pent and country houses. Aldous Huxleyans and Evelyn Waughans smile from time to time with irony and pity, but their eyelids are a little weary. Confirmed Wodehousians hoot, holler, writhe, snort, bellow, nicker, and in culminating transports, belch. Asked why, they may look blank, indignant. Anton Chekhov once said that the best description of the sea he had ever read was written by a Russian schoolboy: "The sea is vast." Wodehousians explain the master's illimitable spell just as simply: He is funny...
...evening meeting began with a discussion of "Can American Democracy Survive?" by Professor J. Anton de Haas. Professor de Haas was followed by Professor A. H. Hansen, who spoke on "The Impact of a Totalitarian Victory on the American Economy," and suggested that a German Europe and a British-American-Far Eastern economic bloc could exist side by side...
...Anton de Haas, of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration whose subject will be, "Can American Democracy Survive?"; Alvin H. Hansen, also of the Busness School, who will speak on "The Impact of Totalitarian Victory on the American Economy"; and Dumas Malone, director of the University Press, who will deliver a talk on "Foreign Dangers and American Unity...
Last week Barney Josephson opened an uptown branch of Café Society, smack in the heart of the swank East Side, next door to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. On the nightclub's two-story-high walls. Artist Anton Refregier painted soft-toned satirical murals...
...sickness; in Winnetka, Ill. Chicago-born son of one Solomon A. Levy, he was four when his parents separated; he and his mother took her maiden name. After 18 years' judgeship in Cook County Probate Court, he ran for Governor in 1932, sponsored by the late Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak, whose subsequent assassination left Horner politically free. Governor ever since, he agreed with the Kelly-Nash machine only on Term III. A bachelor, he found time to become an authority on Lincoln...